Google has recently added the theme feature in Google Personalized Homepage. (The URL for Personalized Homepage is http://www.google.com/ig?hl=en).

To add a theme in your Personalized Homepage just click the 'Select Theme' option in the upper right.



You can choose among any of six available themes. After selctin the theme a box will appear which asks for your location.


You can provide your location by giving your city and state or zipcode. The selcted theme will dynamically change depending on the season, time of day and weather conditions of your current location.

Here is the preview of all the six available themes.

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Google has added a new feature in Blogger. Now you can check the space used by the images of your blogger blog. Actually the images which you post in blogger blog are stored in Picasa Web Album.
While composing a post via blogger.com web based blog editor, just click on the 'Add Image' button.


This opens a popup window which allows you to upload photos. At the botton of the window, you can see the used space of your Picasa account.


Google by default gives 1 GB storage limit per blog.

via Digital Inspiration

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Blogging is getting real popular and everyday thousands of new blogs are created. Most of the bloggers start with free blog hosts like blogger.com. And after getting addicted to blogging many of them think of migrating to their paid hosting. No doubt Wordpress is the first choice when you think of such migration. But there are many things which you want to ensure before migrating to WordPress.

Sumesh asked me some of those question. He wrote:

I have been at the cross-roads for a couple of months, not knowing which way to go.... How easy (or tough) was the setup of WP? It requires a broadband connection, doesnt it? Did you find a good theme for it? If yes, did you tweak it?

If you have many questions and doubts regarding WordPress, I advice to take a test ride and free feel of WordPress. This will certainly help.

Their are many free webspace providers on net and you can give them a try. Fizwig is a good one for this. They offer free webhosting and one click WordPress Installtion.


(The point with Fizwig is that they will display their Google Adsense ads on your blog)

Once you are comfortable with WP you can get your paid hosting and domain.

# Web Hosting
Any webhost that supports the following three things can be used to install WordPress 2.1
PHP 4.2 or greater
MySQL 4.0 or greater
The mod_rewrite Apache module
You can check the requirements page of WP for more details.

# Domain Name
Godaddy and NameCheap are big players in field of domain registration. And don't forget to use free available discount coupons for domain registration. You can always google them out. Some discounts coupons are available here.

# WordPress Themes
There are thousands and thousands of free WP themes available on internet. You can use one of them, but I always recommend to give some personal touch to your blog layout.
You can check Smashing Magazine's WP Themes list. Thats really a good compilation.

Keep Blogging...

Update: Sumesh has a new WP blog now.

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Liz Strauss of Successful and Outstanding Bloggers have included my blog in her SOB Directory. Now if you are wondering what this SOB thing is then just go through this.

What I can say on this. Am just feeling honoured and inspired. And yes I also got this badge.

Blogging is a tough thing, and sometimes you feel down. Things like this really keeps me and my blog moving. Thanks alot Liz.


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